the literature of food and the symposium in Greco-Roman and early Christian culture /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jason König
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2012
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xi, 417 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Greek culture in the Roman world
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Conversation and community -- Locating the symposium -- Voice and community in sympotic literature -- Plutarch -- Athenaeus -- Early Christian commensality and the literary symposium -- Methodius -- Sympotic culture and sympotic literature in late antiquity -- Macrobius -- Consumption and transgression -- Philosophers and parasites -- Food and the symposium in the Greek and Latin novels -- Food and fasting in the Apocryphal Acts -- Food and fasting in early Christian hagiography
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Christian literature, Early-- History and criticism